CAAS partners Searidge Tech to explore AI use in air traffic management

Singapore

THE Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) announced it will conduct research into the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in airport control tower operations, potentially enhancing the safety and performance of flight operations.

It signed a memorandum of understanding on March 7 with digital airport solutions company Searidge Technologies to look into enabling new air traffic management (ATM) functions like predictive runway incursion, collision detection, aerodrome operational performance analytics and speech recognition, all through the application of AI.